Steam News4 August 20267d ago

Multiplayer Update: Friend Codes & The Super Boss

Fly with your friends You can now join a friend's game directly. Pick JOIN FRIEND from the main menu, or hit ESC mid-flight and jump straight into their sector without quitting your run.

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Full Dank Armada update

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What changed

1 fix2 additions2 changes2 removals

Gameplay
Balance
UI and audio

addedFly with your friendsYou can now join a friend's game directly. Pick JOIN FRIEND from the main menu, or hit ESC mid-flight and jump straight into their sector without quitting your run.

changedNew in the fieldAsteroid belts, with more rock and a chance of a powerup buried in one.

changedNew in the fieldReworked 3D flight feel — more forward push, no drift after you let go.

removedFixesA dropped controller input no longer latches for the rest of the run, and a lost key release no longer kills your firing.

removedFixesLevels 2 and 3 no longer stall with an empty field.

addedFixesAudio: boss cues, beam sound and armour hits all get their own voice instead of fighting for the mixer. New default levels.

Dank Armada changes

addedYou can now join a friend's game directly. Pick JOIN FRIEND from the main menu, or hit ESC mid-flight and jump straight into their sector without quitting your run.

changedAsteroid belts, with more rock and a chance of a powerup buried in one.

changedReworked 3D flight feel — more forward push, no drift after you let go.

removedA dropped controller input no longer latches for the rest of the run, and a lost key release no longer kills your firing.

removedLevels 2 and 3 no longer stall with an empty field.

Fly with your friends

You can now join a friend's game directly. Pick JOIN FRIEND from the main menu, or hit ESC mid-flight and jump straight into their sector without quitting your run.

Get your own code from ESC > Invite Friend, and share it however you like — read it out, paste it into chat, or copy it with a keypress.
Type a friend's code by hand from the menu or in the middle of a run.
Codes last 24 hours and follow you: fly somewhere else after sharing one and it still drops your friend where you actually are.

The Super Boss

The super boss now assembles itself in front of you as a set-piece, fires its eye beams out of its face, and stays in the fight across a level change. Its objectives are all reachable, its hull is solid, and killing it is a payoff instead of a disappearance. It can turn up from level 3 onward.

New in the field

Asteroid belts, with more rock and a chance of a powerup buried in one.
Reworked 3D flight feel — more forward push, no drift after you let go.
The Zhar'Khan destroyer is now the Sidewinder, and the codenames are off the screen where they never belonged.

Fixes

A dropped controller input no longer latches for the rest of the run, and a lost key release no longer kills your firing.
Levels 2 and 3 no longer stall with an empty field.
Audioboss cues, beam sound and armour hits all get their own voice instead of fighting for the mixer. New default levels.
Text renders correctly at every resolution, in every language.

Source

Steam News / 4 August 2026

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